Blogspace

A Collection of Blog Activities

This page brings together blog posts from around the web. It collates every post from my personal blog Without Barlines and my photoblog Essays on Urban Life. I’ve also included posts from other people’s blogs. Some of these feature my work and some of them I just want to share.

In the sidebar on the right you’ll find a collection of tags that allow you to filter all blog posts and news items, should you need to find information on a specific topic.

Anyone who’s followed this blog (or anyone in the wake of my tirade of shameless self-promotion over the last couple of weeks) will probably be aware that my newest work, Personal Space, receives its premiere this weekend. As you might imagine, the gears have been stepping-up as ‘the big day’ approaches and now we’re in the full throws of final preparations. Two important things have come out...

I had the chance this last weekend to see two very stimulating concerts of new music. Being closer to London these days certainly has its advantages. On Saturday, the Workers Union Ensemble presented the culmination of their Constructing a Repertoire initiative. The ensemble is an unusual one: oboe, sax, piano, double bass and two percussionists. Not a lot of repertoire exists for that...

Image: Fulla T The ever-decreasing space I’ve had for music Lately I’ve been both fortunate and unfortunate in equal measure. I’ve taken up a new job – an exciting and stimulating job that has me working in the music industry full-time; I’ve managed to find myself a new home; I’m working on a commission from the London Sinfonietta for a solo double bass piece to be premiered at the Southbank...

Image: needoptic Last weekend (3 August) I had the pleasure of experiencing A Whispered Shout, described by its organiser as ‘an afternoon of contemporary and experimental music featuring a wide variety of different sounds and approaches’. Indeed! Part of my motivation for going was to catch-up with old friends and, I hoped, to meet some musicians in the flesh that I’d only had the chance to...

Welcome to my new blog, Without Barlines – a space where my professional experiences and creative motivations can be shared openly and publicly. In line with my working philosophy, I’ll be treating musical practice and culture as a diverse field of interaction whose often-encountered partitions, which are many and varied, I see as serving only the most superficial functions. On a personal...